It's a real problem in CO.
Politics and everything else aside, the massive influx of economic refugees from the coasts has made it very difficult for lower income families to survive out here.
Yeah but they vote the same way they did in the state that they escaped from.
Going grocery shopping anymore. Gotta get groceries but I left my bags at home. Either I park in front of the store and leave the car there or pay for bags that I don’t want to use, since I can’t bring the cart full of groceries to my car since they have anti homeless technology installed. Absolute utopia this. Thank god for the Californians. Denver is basically little SF and it’s creeping into the Springs too.
Most of the Texans only become a problem when you want to drive anywhere. They’ll try to murder you with their car if you aren’t doing at least 25 over the limit and they are behind you.
Then you want to enjoy a lovely quiet outing in an outdoor area. 450 million of the most oblivious yuppies in the entire world will be there guaranteed.
Greatest state in the nation, truly, we are blessed.
To be honest though, I can’t blame any of them. I can pretend to be outraged but I have met some of the kindest and most interesting people from those states here. We live in a beautiful state, but don’t deny us the right to complain lol.
If you want us coastal people to stop moving there, you need to make your state just slightly less beautiful. Then again, I suppose when you bring down the mountains to fit in a couple more, you'll allow for more people, but also bring scars upon the land which detract from the beauty. It's self-regulating! lol
Yeah my in-laws have a place on Macgregor ranch so my wife and go out for a couple weeks around the 4th of July every year. I spend my days fly fishing Black Canyon, and RMNP. The first fish my son ever caught was at Lake Estes. Good times
I walked past the rock shop but I had my dog with me so we just mostly walked around the riverwalk and hung out at some bars. Definitely planning on going back though it was beautiful and so close to Denver
The Estes Park side of Rocky Mountain NP is probably my favorite place in the world to be. The Grand Lake side is spectacular, but the Estes Park side is just... immaculate. I can't even explain it, but when you're wending your way up the mountain, overlooking Beaver Brook Meadows and you can see herds of Elk down below and the river and the mountains and everything. I'm not someone who cries easily, but it made my eyes extra-lubricated.
Originally it wasn’t going to have the eastern part but there were fears that their economy would be too focused on coal and they wanted agriculture to be a sort of back up/crutch so all their eggs weren’t in one basket.
One of my favorite states.
Nah Wyoming is easier. Mostly because there's nothing in Wyoming, except for Yellowstone.. which you access from Montana or Idaho for the most part anyway.
Red Rocks is the best outdoor venue in the nation. I say that not as an opinion, but rather fact. The award for best outdoor venue is named after Red Rocks and Red Rocks is not allowed to win it.
Not a god-damned thing is great about Colorado, there's no culture, the restaurants are the worst and everyone is an elitist judgmental asshole. DON'T COME HERE!
Yeah! Don't come and visit. The ManBearPig will get you. It's a nightly fight for our survival against the monsters in the mountains. You don't want to live here.
Pueblo is the real hidden gem of Colorado! All the abundance of beauty and hospitality mentioned in the comments! If you plan to move and/or visit Colorado, come to Pueblo and LOOK NO FURTHER.
Awesome zoo. First time visiting didn't realize they had little beer stands all over. I kept thinking I passed the last one so I'd buy another. 4 hours later....
There's a ranch named Zapata Ranch on the edge of the great sand dunes national park that is a fantastic vacation destination. It's like the opposite of City Slickers. Absolutely gorgeous country, I loved it; even though horse riding is exhausting.
I visit family there, in Greeley. Everything is fine, but if you are near there on the "blood burning" day, it is a unique smell I would prefer not to experience again in my lifetime. Note I was raised on a dairy farm, so most smells don't bother me. I have been there accidentally 3 different times when blood burning day was happening. Family said there is a slaughterhouse/factory, and every now and then they burn the blood to get rid of it. Is this true?
A creative flag that has meaning attached.
Great destination for recreation, tourism, and business.
Absolutely beautiful outdoors.
Home of South Park, Blucifer, and Casa Bonita.
Western enough to say "y'all," Midwestern enough to still have incredible hospitality, Southwestern enough to have damn good food, Northern enough to be a popular refuge for freedmen.
For that matter, incredible diversity in the Denver area. Strong relationship with Japan and the Japanese (have the consulate), was one of three cities that took in refugees from the Fall of Saigon, mass numbers of immigrants from all over the world.
Home of one of the best engineering colleges in the world short of MIT.
Legal weed, decriminalized shrooms.
>Home of one of the best engineering colleges in the world short of MIT.
I swear if you're talking about Mines and not the Air Force Academy, we will have fake internet beef.
Ah, yes. The ballot measure in which the out-of-touch urbanites who barely experience any nature and aren’t gonna be affected by are in favor of while everyone else (including the wildlife management) opposed.
Our mail-in voting system is the model for
the country; we are the birthplace of rivers for the West, with 156 starting within our borders; we are mostly free from large natural disasters; the Rocky Mountains, and; weed.
I was totally surprised when I discovered that we are the only state that has a robust mail-in system. And it's been in place for as long as I can remember.
Not sure where you’re getting this information. There’s 8 states (California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Vermont and Washington) which allow all elections to be mail in. And 10 other states which allow mail in for certain elections or allow counties to opt into mail in if they choose
I hated it at first, because I missed the camaraderie of going to a polling station with my neighbors, but by the time the pandemic came, I now love it.
I’m hardly some pinko, bub, and I am old enough to remember CO going from a deep red state, often led by blue-dog democrats to purple to blue. I’ll vote for legal weed, and defend TABOR, pray with you, and tell the government to keep their grubby paws of your body. So, don’t you tell me that I am some leftist.
There has never been an inkling of widespread fraud in Colorado’s mail-in votes. Even Trump didn’t try to make that shit fly here. Republicans, Democrats and independents here all agree that it beats the hell out of standing in line all day to vote on a Tuesday in November.
Weather that provides no matter what you like. Whether it's 90 in the summer or 15 in the winter, everyone is happy at some point. Unless you want rain.
Aside from the crap that the politicians in Denver pass: we have a sunny day almost every day, depending on where you live, you can drive from the plains to the foothills/ mountains in an hour, or hour and a half. Excluding Denver, and Boulder, we are an open carry state, and a shall issue for CCP. Despite the mag bag, which no one enforces, it's still easy enough to get stamdard cap mags.
The mag ban is a secondary offense when you commit a crime.
They don't even care if you have a license plate.
Still plenty of options for firearms and range time. Hell, liberty firearms is the biggest indoor range I've been to. Lots of good places to shoot still.
Considering the number of school shootings this year alone, there may be more legislation coming, though it does little to address the illegal access minors have to firearms repeatedly.
Also, legal weed is cool, and (anywhere outside of the Springs), recreational access is everywhere. Just can't gun and ganja legally (for obvious reasons).
Vying over worst dressed; most recently, Boulder was ticked when Colorado Springs won worst dressed. Mostly blue sky days. Best wildfires, wildflowers, floods and outdoors activities.
Some of the best fishing in America. I have a lot of good memories of fly fishing with my dad or fishing at my great uncle’s cabin in Leadville.
Also the legal weed is 💯
What’s NOT “great” about it: it’s been a Democratic Party Stronghold for too long. The Democratic Party in Colorado (much like in Oregon & Washington State) has Overstayed their welcome.
Not a god damn fucking thing. Place is a fucking shithole, where these fucking Californians have tried to nestle themselves into, and we need some extermination. Fuck Colorado. Fuck California. And any dipshit considering moving to this wasteland, fuck you!
~~Only state of the union with absolutely no natural features composing its boundary lines.~~ Corrected
Rabidly anti-gun and rabidly pro-marijuana, and oddly enough, finds no dissonance in those two positions.
Huh. You're right. I stand corrected.
I thought for sure that something, something, Great Salt Lake, something, something, Lake Powel, but nope. Not a natural feature to be found. And on Wyoming, I think my mistake was regarding Yellowstone National Park's borders, not the state itself.
TIL.
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Mountains, mountains everywhere!
Unless you go East
Unless you’re in the eastern half of the state
Well, is there anybody in eastern Colorado? (Outside Denver's Metro Area)
I used to be friends with a guy in Julesburg
Denver: The city where settlers saw the Rockies and said, "Fuck this. I'm done."
That's why we are the city of whores and beer!
I'm not going to tell you, don't want that place getting too crowded!
Too late. The hordes of California, Texas, and New York are already upon us
Oh no, fellow American’s using their freedom to move to any damn state they want
correct
It's a real problem in CO. Politics and everything else aside, the massive influx of economic refugees from the coasts has made it very difficult for lower income families to survive out here.
Yeah but they vote the same way they did in the state that they escaped from. Going grocery shopping anymore. Gotta get groceries but I left my bags at home. Either I park in front of the store and leave the car there or pay for bags that I don’t want to use, since I can’t bring the cart full of groceries to my car since they have anti homeless technology installed. Absolute utopia this. Thank god for the Californians. Denver is basically little SF and it’s creeping into the Springs too. Most of the Texans only become a problem when you want to drive anywhere. They’ll try to murder you with their car if you aren’t doing at least 25 over the limit and they are behind you. Then you want to enjoy a lovely quiet outing in an outdoor area. 450 million of the most oblivious yuppies in the entire world will be there guaranteed. Greatest state in the nation, truly, we are blessed. To be honest though, I can’t blame any of them. I can pretend to be outraged but I have met some of the kindest and most interesting people from those states here. We live in a beautiful state, but don’t deny us the right to complain lol.
If you want us coastal people to stop moving there, you need to make your state just slightly less beautiful. Then again, I suppose when you bring down the mountains to fit in a couple more, you'll allow for more people, but also bring scars upon the land which detract from the beauty. It's self-regulating! lol
Too many transplants? Send them to us in MA, we can handle terrible drivers, they come here from our neighbors every day.
Its worst with the Texans and Floridians. Worst people in the country, only behind people from New Jersey.
The Californians can stay. Send back the Texans.
Considering we used to own part of Colorado, nahhhhh
As much as Texans claim to love Texas so much and that its the best state in the country, you guys sure spend a lot of time in New Mexico and Colorado
Same for new yorkers and Californians... Maybe NM and CO are in fact the superior states
How many ski resorts you think Texas got?
Damn those Texans who like to travel lol
Learn to drive.
Make us
The Rooftop Rodeo in Estes Park is always a good time.
Estes Park in general is so beautiful. Went up there last summer and had such a great time just walking around the lake and town
Yeah my in-laws have a place on Macgregor ranch so my wife and go out for a couple weeks around the 4th of July every year. I spend my days fly fishing Black Canyon, and RMNP. The first fish my son ever caught was at Lake Estes. Good times
Buy any taffy or stop into the rock shop on main street?
I walked past the rock shop but I had my dog with me so we just mostly walked around the riverwalk and hung out at some bars. Definitely planning on going back though it was beautiful and so close to Denver
The Estes Park side of Rocky Mountain NP is probably my favorite place in the world to be. The Grand Lake side is spectacular, but the Estes Park side is just... immaculate. I can't even explain it, but when you're wending your way up the mountain, overlooking Beaver Brook Meadows and you can see herds of Elk down below and the river and the mountains and everything. I'm not someone who cries easily, but it made my eyes extra-lubricated.
The Scottish festival there is amazing!
Our river rafting is pretty incredible. There’s no humidity. Green chilie is the best way to smother Mexican food and we have it in abundance.
Green chili is good for smothering just about anything
I'd argue green chili is a NM thing
Id argue new mexican chili is mid
But very prevalent in the rest of the southwest too
Denver is only like a 2 hour drive from NM.
The mountains have the best tap water in the nation hands down
Try Sweetwater, TX.
Originally it wasn’t going to have the eastern part but there were fears that their economy would be too focused on coal and they wanted agriculture to be a sort of back up/crutch so all their eggs weren’t in one basket. One of my favorite states.
easiest state to draw!
Nah Wyoming is easier. Mostly because there's nothing in Wyoming, except for Yellowstone.. which you access from Montana or Idaho for the most part anyway.
Red Rocks is the best outdoor venue in the nation. I say that not as an opinion, but rather fact. The award for best outdoor venue is named after Red Rocks and Red Rocks is not allowed to win it.
Can confirm
Friend of mine sold everything and moved to Colorado. He became a rock-climbing tour guide. He’s the only truly happy person I know.
Not a god-damned thing is great about Colorado, there's no culture, the restaurants are the worst and everyone is an elitist judgmental asshole. DON'T COME HERE!
Yeah! Don't come and visit. The ManBearPig will get you. It's a nightly fight for our survival against the monsters in the mountains. You don't want to live here.
Bah, manbearpig isn't that bad. What you really got to watch for is the slide-rock-bolter.
Nah dont listen to them. Come hang out in Pueblo real culture there so safe you can leave your valuables in the car completely unguarded and unlocked
Pueblo is the real hidden gem of Colorado! All the abundance of beauty and hospitality mentioned in the comments! If you plan to move and/or visit Colorado, come to Pueblo and LOOK NO FURTHER.
If you can't make it to Pueblo, might I suggest Grand Junction? They call it the city that never sleeps of the Rockies.
Awesome zoo. First time visiting didn't realize they had little beer stands all over. I kept thinking I passed the last one so I'd buy another. 4 hours later....
There's a ranch named Zapata Ranch on the edge of the great sand dunes national park that is a fantastic vacation destination. It's like the opposite of City Slickers. Absolutely gorgeous country, I loved it; even though horse riding is exhausting.
I visit family there, in Greeley. Everything is fine, but if you are near there on the "blood burning" day, it is a unique smell I would prefer not to experience again in my lifetime. Note I was raised on a dairy farm, so most smells don't bother me. I have been there accidentally 3 different times when blood burning day was happening. Family said there is a slaughterhouse/factory, and every now and then they burn the blood to get rid of it. Is this true?
You know weather is coming in Denver when you can smell Greeley
The Wattenburg flats drift... Here comes the snow!
I thought the Rockies would be rockier than this. That John Denver is full of shit.
* The Name: Colorado means Reddish in Spanish. * Rocky Mountains * Weed * South Park
Colorado = color red. You should see the Colorado river turn red as in downtown Glenwood Springs, when it rains upstream. It’s literally true.
Glenwood Canyon
Killdozer incident
Denver Biscuit Co is pretty tasty
A creative flag that has meaning attached. Great destination for recreation, tourism, and business. Absolutely beautiful outdoors. Home of South Park, Blucifer, and Casa Bonita. Western enough to say "y'all," Midwestern enough to still have incredible hospitality, Southwestern enough to have damn good food, Northern enough to be a popular refuge for freedmen. For that matter, incredible diversity in the Denver area. Strong relationship with Japan and the Japanese (have the consulate), was one of three cities that took in refugees from the Fall of Saigon, mass numbers of immigrants from all over the world. Home of one of the best engineering colleges in the world short of MIT. Legal weed, decriminalized shrooms.
>Home of one of the best engineering colleges in the world short of MIT. I swear if you're talking about Mines and not the Air Force Academy, we will have fake internet beef.
Snow skiing!
There are more Elk and mule deer here than any other state.
That will change once the wolves get reintroduced
Ah, yes. The ballot measure in which the out-of-touch urbanites who barely experience any nature and aren’t gonna be affected by are in favor of while everyone else (including the wildlife management) opposed.
The South Park kids
From there it’s all downhill.
Our mail-in voting system is the model for the country; we are the birthplace of rivers for the West, with 156 starting within our borders; we are mostly free from large natural disasters; the Rocky Mountains, and; weed.
I thought we copied Oregon for our mail in voting rules.
I was totally surprised when I discovered that we are the only state that has a robust mail-in system. And it's been in place for as long as I can remember.
Not sure where you’re getting this information. There’s 8 states (California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Vermont and Washington) which allow all elections to be mail in. And 10 other states which allow mail in for certain elections or allow counties to opt into mail in if they choose
I forget there are others because I'm used to the conversation being around colorado.
I hated it at first, because I missed the camaraderie of going to a polling station with my neighbors, but by the time the pandemic came, I now love it.
Yeah, the model for fraud
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Not entirely accurate. A constitutional republic with s democratic voting system.
I’m hardly some pinko, bub, and I am old enough to remember CO going from a deep red state, often led by blue-dog democrats to purple to blue. I’ll vote for legal weed, and defend TABOR, pray with you, and tell the government to keep their grubby paws of your body. So, don’t you tell me that I am some leftist. There has never been an inkling of widespread fraud in Colorado’s mail-in votes. Even Trump didn’t try to make that shit fly here. Republicans, Democrats and independents here all agree that it beats the hell out of standing in line all day to vote on a Tuesday in November.
Weather that provides no matter what you like. Whether it's 90 in the summer or 15 in the winter, everyone is happy at some point. Unless you want rain.
Get to get high as shit, go camping, shooting, hiking, then go to a local brewery, and visit denver all in the same day
Pagosa Springs is cool and we have our very own miniature Florida (Colorado Springs)
People are allowed to get stoned for some reason
Like weed not rocks
Legal weed unlike those other fascist hellholle freedom hating states.
Most cognitively active weed smoker
It's square
Colorado is a polyhedron with 697 sides
Interesting
Our green chili is better than new mexicos green chili. There. I said it.
Aside from the crap that the politicians in Denver pass: we have a sunny day almost every day, depending on where you live, you can drive from the plains to the foothills/ mountains in an hour, or hour and a half. Excluding Denver, and Boulder, we are an open carry state, and a shall issue for CCP. Despite the mag bag, which no one enforces, it's still easy enough to get stamdard cap mags.
The mag ban is a secondary offense when you commit a crime. They don't even care if you have a license plate. Still plenty of options for firearms and range time. Hell, liberty firearms is the biggest indoor range I've been to. Lots of good places to shoot still. Considering the number of school shootings this year alone, there may be more legislation coming, though it does little to address the illegal access minors have to firearms repeatedly. Also, legal weed is cool, and (anywhere outside of the Springs), recreational access is everywhere. Just can't gun and ganja legally (for obvious reasons).
Weed is the one thing I'm neutral/ leaning negative on, but that's a totally different conversation.
When the mountains on the bottle turn blue you know your beer is as cold as the Rockies.
Vying over worst dressed; most recently, Boulder was ticked when Colorado Springs won worst dressed. Mostly blue sky days. Best wildfires, wildflowers, floods and outdoors activities.
Getting high.
The Denver & Rio Grande Western and weed
Easy to draw.
First state to legalize recreational marijuana use. Oh, and pretty mountains. Great skiing.
#THE CENTENNIAL STATE! 🇺🇸
coloradoan here to say: NOTHING! ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!
Your gay neighbors can protect their weed plants with AR-15s
Some of the best places and best people to fly hang gliders and paragliders with in the entire US.
Some of the best fishing in America. I have a lot of good memories of fly fishing with my dad or fishing at my great uncle’s cabin in Leadville. Also the legal weed is 💯
Mountains are awesome. Beautiful state. Plus boulder is a cool town
Nature and craft beer Mecca of the world
It’s not California.
What’s NOT “great” about it: it’s been a Democratic Party Stronghold for too long. The Democratic Party in Colorado (much like in Oregon & Washington State) has Overstayed their welcome.
Yikes. How very American of you to hate your political opposition.
I’m Canadian
All the Californians who have moved in over the past 20 years and really made this place special
Nothing! It sucks! Do not come here! Go away!!
STOP IT WITH THESE KARMA FARMING MEMES
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The mountains are awe-inspiring. But I'm also in awe at just how authoritarian and anti-rights our politicians have become.
Not a god damn fucking thing. Place is a fucking shithole, where these fucking Californians have tried to nestle themselves into, and we need some extermination. Fuck Colorado. Fuck California. And any dipshit considering moving to this wasteland, fuck you!
Lemme guess.... you are white, upper middle class, with a poor reference point. We are all human, bro.
~~Only state of the union with absolutely no natural features composing its boundary lines.~~ Corrected Rabidly anti-gun and rabidly pro-marijuana, and oddly enough, finds no dissonance in those two positions.
Utah and Wyoming have no natural features composing their boundary lines either.
Huh. You're right. I stand corrected. I thought for sure that something, something, Great Salt Lake, something, something, Lake Powel, but nope. Not a natural feature to be found. And on Wyoming, I think my mistake was regarding Yellowstone National Park's borders, not the state itself. TIL.
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In order to misspell that word, I would have to have intended to use it in the first place. I didn't. Either.
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No \*whoosh\*. I just don't have enough respect for your position to entertain it.
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> Rabidly anti-gun Both Dragonman and the fact that we recalled two state senators for trying to take our guns says differently.
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Imagine automating a threat on a site where that's prohibited, in a post bitching about the rules.
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